Mary Lawrence will be awarded one of the most prestigious distinctions in the field of law education on June 3 for a project that she started 35 years ago. In 1978, as a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, Lawrence helped to found the Legal Research and Writing program at UO Law [...]
Students sticking around Eugene this summer can look forward to a brand new way to express their creativity. Throughout the month of August, Create! Eugene, a workshop-driven celebration of the arts, will showcase exhibitions and demonstrations in its inaugural attempt to get creative juices flowing. The festival, hosted by the Arts and Business Alliance of Eugene, will run throughout the month of [...]
Tired of hearing “anything is possible,” Jake Ducey, 21, decided to find out for himself if this mantra was true. After his first year of college on a basketball scholarship filled with nights of drinking and unpredictable activity, he decided to leave behind his life of confusion and troubled decisions in search for something more. [...]
On the back wall of Marvin King’s office hang an assortment of handmade thank you notes, letters and drawings. Ask him about them and he will smile proudly, chuckling while he recounts his favorite tales of his last fourteen years working for the University of Oregon Student Recreation Center and reminiscing over the best young [...]
In his first race, Joe Henderson began the mile run with so much speed and exertion he couldn’t make it past the first lap. Discouraged and wanting to quit, his high school track coach urged him to run once more and finish, to give it a fair try. He did, and after that, he never [...]
Ryan Kelly might be a highly trained and experienced martial artist, but one of the University of Oregon adjunct professor’s most sought-after accomplishments is the attainment of a “beginners mind.” As a student of Jeet Kune Do — the teachings and philosophies of Bruce Lee — Kelly has dedicated his life to a model of tolerance [...]
Fengyi Zhang is not sure how much longer he will be in America. He is a transfer student from Dalian, China, which is near the North Korean border. As global tensions rise in response to North Korea’s fervent displays of nuclear power, he spends each day questioning the fate of his hometown, dreading the news of nuclear [...]
Complex Magazine — a guide to arts, style, culture and city life — recently ranked Rennie’s Landing as one of the nation’s top 50 college bars in America. Number 43, to be exact. Located on Kincaid Street in the historic John Rennie house, Rennie’s Landing has served the campus area for 32 years. The establishment’s [...]
Garrett West sees the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon as the best of two worlds. According to him, small class sizes and a rigorous academic program give the honors college the intimate appeal of a prestigious private school, while its placement within a large university provides students with a variety of academic, [...]
News editor Sam Stites will be the 2013-14 editor-in-chief of Emerald Media Group, the Emerald’s board of directors announced Tuesday night. “Sam had an edge because of his strong news background and experience,” said Peter Milliron, Emerald Board of Directors Chair. “Sam has earned the trust and respect of the staff and he’s built relationships [...]
When Tony Glausi thinks about the future he doesn’t envision riches, fancy cars or a mansion in Beverly Hills. In fact, he doesn’t have much of a plan for himself beyond finishing graduate school. Occasionally he ponders becoming a composer, a professor or a wandering artist. Honestly, Glausi says, his number one ambition is just [...]
Mattilda Berstein Sycamore doesn’t like to be called gay. Instead, she prefers the term queer – a word that she believe carries a stronger connotation of the kind of all around liberal defiance she hopes to embody. Sycamore, a queer activist and author based out of Seattle grew up in Washington, D.C. in an assimilated [...]
“Chef” shows up to Matthew Knight Arena two hours before a basketball game starts, standing before closed doors with fellow members of the Pit Crew. He waits for admission into the holy temple of Oregon’s indoor sports and as the doors open, he dawns his toque and gets down to business. For the hour leading to [...]
On days when sunshine dares pierce the haze of Eugene’s grey skies, you’ll find Sydney Talbott outside. Like most University of Oregon students, she takes advantage of each second of vitamin D afforded by the Pacific Northwest. However, unlike most students, her preferred method of outdoor entertainment is spent suspended off of the ground, barefoot, [...]
Students Against Imperialism co-founders Diana Salazar and Jaki Salgado were prepared for controversy when they organized their mock border patrol checkpoint this past Thursday. They were not, however, expecting an altercation with University of Oregon faculty member James Olmsted. “We were prepared for having people who were not going to agree with us,” Salgado said. [...]
Many American citizens probably couldn’t find Israel on a map. Thousands of miles away from the United States, nestled in a turbulent middle east, the Jewish homeland might seem of little importance to the general student population. At the University of Oregon, the student run initiative Quack PAC — a sub group of Ducks for [...]
University of Oregon students Jonathan Brunton, Mackensie Southard, Kris Kimberling and Cody Schmidt function as a unit. The four men are from different backgrounds, pursuing different academic paths, looking for different things out of their futures. Despite their diverse interests and upbringings, these men find themselves united by a bond stronger than ideological differences — [...]
As a student, Allison Hyde made her fair share of memories in the LaVerne Krause Gallery. “I accidentally locked the key in the back room of the gallery once when I was showing there,” she said. “I had to call the director of the gallery at about one in the morning trying to figure out [...]
Campus organizations collaborated over the weekend to host a Wikipedia-editing seminar geared toward supporting womens’ roles in web technology. The purpose of the seminar, presented in honor of Women’s History Month, was to encourage women at the University of Oregon and in the Eugene community to become Wikipedia contributors and editors, teaching them the skills [...]
Carolina Caballero Segura uses her body to solve problems. Segura, a Graduate Teaching Fellow studying dance at the University of Oregon as a Fulbright Scholar from South America, developed an interest in social issues when studying for a degree in psychology at Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia. Although she attributes much of her knowledge of [...]
